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Radiology equipment
Radiology equipment is used in the medical profession for the purpose of creating images that expose internal parts of the body.
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Radiology equipment
Pulse width modulator node
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
Subnode or controller; the PWM node is one of five subnodes on the BGM controller board.
Pulse repetition frequency
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
The frequency of the discrete on/off cycles of the beam pulse which determines the intensity of the radiation beam. Specifically: 1) On low energy Clinacs, the frequency of the modulator\'s output ...
Pva calibration
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
Application that performs a variety of imager and geometric calibrations. See PVA calibration tool.
Primary position readout
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
Display of the primary sensor position for a particular axis. See secondary position readout.
Preprocessing projections
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
One of three steps in the reconstruction of a CBCT dataset, which produces corrected 2D projections from raw 2D projections. In addition to normalisation and logarithmic conversion, preprocessing ...
Primary beam radiation
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
Ionising radiation emitted directly by the target or by a radioactive source. Clinacs and Ximatrons generate a 28o primary radiation beam cone from a source in the gantry (measured one metre back ...
Primary
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
A parameter that designates a physician type as the primary physician for a given patient.
